Can no longer search code without being logged in. · community · Discussion #77046
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Select Topic Area Product Feedback Body This is revolting and an anathema to the open source movement. A movement, I might add, Microsoft is abusing here. We're told that this is for security... Bu...

Response from Martin Woodward, GitHub’s VP of Developer Relations:

Sorry for the inconvenience @koepnick - while searching across all repos has required being logged in for a long time, when we enhanced the search capabilities earlier in the 2023 we had to extend this to repos as well (see https://github.blog/changelog/2023-06-07-code-search-now-requires-login/).

This is primarily to ensure we can support the load for developers on GitHub and help protect the servers from being overwhelmed by anonymous requests from bots etc.

  • @cybersandwich
    -7•7 months ago

    I like GitHub. Microsoft has been a pretty good steward of it since they bought it. This change isn’t a big deal to me. They are probably doing it to limit AI LLM bots from hoovering up the code theyve already hoovered up.

    GitHub pages is really nice too.

    • @[email protected]
      4•7 months ago

      They are probably doing it to limit AI LLM bots from hoovering up the code they’ve already hoovered up.

      Why is this a bad thing, when M$ is already training on it themselves? If your code is permissively licensed, it seems logical or even desired to be scraped for LLMs

      • @cybersandwich
        2•7 months ago

        It’s not a bad thing. I was just saying that’s probably why they are doing it.

        Everyone is getting super protective about “their” data now.

        Oh yea, GitHub copilot is pretty nice too. (trained on all those repos!)

        I realize this is a “hate on GitHub” thread so I’m gonna get downvoted for this post too but it does everything I need it to do, the documentation is fantastic, and it’s the “defacto” repo for a lot of stuff.